Seeking Reconciliation between Georgia and Abkhazia: The Bottom-Up Approach since 2008

• Název práce v češtině: Snaha o usmíření mezi Gruzií a Abcházií: Strategie bottom-up od roku 2008
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Seeking Reconciliation between Georgia and Abkhazia: The Bottom-Up Approach since 2008
• Klíčová slova: Gruzínsko-Abchazský konflikt, Rusko, Etnický konflikt, Usmíření, Transformace konfliktu, Budování míru, Symbolická politika.
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict, Russia, Ethnic Conflict, Reconciliation, Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding, Symbolic Politics.
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2021/2022
• Typ práce: rigorózní práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Katedra německých a rakouských studií (23-KNRS)
• Vedoucí / školitel: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 12.04.2023
• Datum zadání: 12.04.2023
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 12.04.2023
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 10.10.2023 11:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 12.04.2023
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 10.10.2023
• Oponenti: doc. PhDr. Slavomír Horák, Ph.D.

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Předběžná náplň práce

Diplomová práce se zabývá usmiřováním mezi Gruzií a Abcházií po roce 2008. Soustředí se přitom na bottom-up strategii k usmíření a její dosavadní přínos a potenciál k transformaci vleklého a nevyřešeného konfliktu. Vzhledem k tomu, že bilaterální jednání na politické úrovni mezi Gruzií a Abcházií neprobíhají od roku 2006, může být tato strategie jedním z mála nástrojů, jak současný status quo narušit. Práce se snaží přínos usmiřování odhalit skrze diskurzy účastníků v civilním mírovém procesu. Soustředí se na to, jak tito lidé vnímají konflikt, a do jaké míry jejich diskurzy obsahují mýty a stereotypy o druhém etniku. Současně se diplomová práce snaží porovnat jejich diskurzy s oficiálním státním diskurzem a vyhodnotit, jestli tento diskurz narušují.

Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

The diploma thesis deals with the reconciliation process between Georgia and Abkhazia after 2008. It focuses on the bottom-up approach to reconciliation and its potential for the transformation of protracted and unresolved conflict. As bilateral negotiations at the political level between Georgia and Abkhazia have been stuck since 2006, this approach may be the only tool to disrupt the current status quo. The work tries to reveal the benefits of reconciliation through the discourses of participants in the civil peace process. It focuses on how these people perceive the conflict and to what extent their discourses contain myths and stereotypes about the other ethnic group. Also, the diploma thesis tries to compare their discourses with the official state discourse and evaluate if they disrupt this discourse.